The 1975’s third album: Release date, tour dates and everything we know so far

Buckle in, fans. New music from The 1975 is on the way and we’re excited. Not just because we named their last album ‘I like it when you sleep…’ our best of 2016 – but because it looks set to be the record that cements their reputation as the defining pop band of the decade.

But that’s not all that’s in the works. Here’s everything we now about The 1975’s new album – and beyond – so far.

Recent updates

Japanese version of the album has been confirmed to have an extra track

Tracklist:

The 1975Give Yourself A TryTOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIMEHow To Draw / PetrichorLove It If We Made ItBe My MistakeSincerity Is ScaryI Like America & America Likes MeThe Man Who Married A Robot / Love ThemeInside Your MindIt’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You)Surrounded By Heads And BodiesMineI Couldn’t Be More In LoveI Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)

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Matty Healy has also confirmed that the Japanese version of the album will have an extra track on it. He tweeted a screenshot of the tracklist for the international edition of the record, which concludes with a song called ‘102’.

What is The 1975’s new album going to be called?

The title is now ‘A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships’. The title of the second new record is, according to Healy, ‘Notes On A Conditional Form’, which is set to be released in May next year.

We thought the third album was going to be called ‘Music For Cars’. Healy even thought that himself for a while. “‘Music For Cars’ was an EP named for our love for Brian Eno,” he told us last year. “We’re using it as the album title now because of how meta and self-referential everything has become in the world of The 1975, and ‘Music For Cars’ was always my favourite title of everything we’d ever done, so it kinda made sense to wrap it up that way.”

Have we heard any songs from The 1975’s new album?

Similarly to how they teased ‘Give Yourself A Try’, the band shared an image of the song’s lyrics in an Instagram post, quoting Trump in two places – “Immigration liberal kitsch/Kneeling on a pitch/‘I moved on her like a bitch!!’” and, later, with “Excited to be indicted/Unrequited/House with seven pools/Thank you Kanye, very cool.”

A user on Reddit has also spotted advertising for the next song ‘It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You)’, which is set to come out on October 18.

What will The 1975’s new album sound like?

The new record has long been referred to by the band as the final instalment in a trilogy of albums – though Matt Healy has since revealed that that plan has been scrapped.“I was really lying to myself that the 1975 wasn’t my primary drive,” he offered by way of explanation in a recent interview with The Guardian.

“Our first three albums are the story of a person; it’s always kind of been my story. It spanned adolescence to maturity, success and trying to mediate the two, and the third one is where we are now,” Healy told NME. “I haven’t really decided the statement of where we are now yet. It’s sort of difficult to understand the present,” he added.

He also revealed that he’s “not really in a good headspace” while writing the album, but maybe that’s not something worry about. “I wasn’t [in a good headspace] in the last one and I wasn’t in the one before it. My creative pursuit doesn’t elicit much happiness because a lot of the time it’s about the darker side of me. That’s the way it should be, if you’re really challenging yourself. But yeah, it’s f**king torture.”

Healy also revealed that the pressure is on for album three, and told NME, “it has to be the best thing we’ve ever done.” In March 2017 he said that they need to reach the heights of The Smiths and Radiohead’s finest hours. “If you look at third albums, ‘OK Computer’ or ‘The Queen Is Dead’, that’s what we need to do,” he said.